A year ago, 50 000 Trumpists stormed the Capitol. Two people died directly as a result of the chaos and violence on scene.
Trump is popular among Republicans despite the coup attempt he incited:
Polling shows Donald Trump continues to enjoy soaring ratings among Republicans, as support for the ex-president's false claims of election fraud remains essential for GOP contenders going into upcoming election races.On the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection by Trump supporters, data shows how Republicans such as ex-Vice President Mike Pence and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have paid a high price for acknowledging President Joe Biden's win in 2020.
After the storming of the U.S. Capitol, GOP insiders told The Intelligencer they had lost patience with Trump, whom they predicted would face waning influence within the party. Trump's closest allies also feared that his role as the riot's catalyst would hurt his legacy and the party.
However, Civiqs' daily tracking polls have shown that following the tumultuous 12 months since the riots, Trump's standing among Republicans is largely unchanged.Just before the insurrection, 83 percent of registered Republican voters surveyed said they had a "favorable" opinion of Trump. That rating stayed above 80 percent every month until August 2021, and was still as high as 76 percent by the end of December.
Pence's favorability rating, which was 78 percent at the time of the insurrection, slumped immediately to 40 percent after he certified the election results. By the end of 2021, the rating had declined even further to 28 percent.
McConnell's 58 percent rating declined 10 points when he recognized Biden as the winner on December 15, 2020. It went even lower after he condemned Trump's "conspiracy theories" before Congress on January 6, 2021. He now has a net favorability rating of minus 32, according to the polling reported by FiveThirtyEight.
That Trump supporters control the Republican Party is confirmed.
In the weeks leading up to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a handful of Americans — well-known politicians, obscure local bureaucrats — stood up to block then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn a free and fair vote of the American people.In the year since, Trump-aligned Republicans have worked to clear the path for next time.
In battleground states and beyond, Republicans are taking hold of the once-overlooked machinery of elections. While the effort is incomplete and uneven, outside experts on democracy and Democrats are sounding alarms, warning that the United States is witnessing a “slow-motion insurrection” with a better chance of success than Trump’s failed power grab last year.
If anyone thinks the other side is going to roll over and accept Trumpists turning the USA into a dictatorship, they will be dead wrong. The ensuing chaos and violence will put the USA out of commission for a long time.
The Chinese and the Russians are going to exploit this. What a lovely situation for them!
That means world war.
The world has gone utterly mad.
Thank you, you extremist fucks!
The sole consolation here is that you, too, will start dying in droves in just a couple of years.
And you, the passive supporting masses, you and your lack of intellectual hygiene are a major culprit if this prediction comes to pass.
What's really going on?
What's fundamentally going on here is this. The three main ideologies of the modern world are classical liberalism, socialism and fascism. Each of these ideologies dominates until its flaws become apparent and a violent move away from it begins.
Similarly to 1870-1914 when classical liberalism had free reign, the world has seen decades of unfettered capitalism since the end of the Cold War. As a result the world has seen an extreme concentration of wealth. The middle class in the West has been struggling. The rise of populists like Trump is largely the result of the middle class of the West experiencing deep uncertainty in the face of worsening economic prospects. The cost of housing, healthcare and education are spiraling out of control. Industries that offered good stable jobs are dying.
The emotional appeal of populism is growing. An authority figure of a politician telling the public how greatness will be restored, offering false hope has a great deal of appeal now. For example, Trump's promises to revive the old industries of America's rust belt has won him a lot of support in those areas. But has he been able to deliver? Of course, not. And if even if Trump got to establish a dynasty after the last presidential election in 2024 and carry out any policies he wanted without opposition, he would ultimately fail to deliver like Mussolini did. The economy of fascist Italy was based on nothing but taking on foreign debt recklessly, which he was forced to try and repudiate through war and conquest with known results.